Re: [HACKERS] A good illustraton of why we need user-friendly system views

2012-06-22 Thread Jaime Casanova
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: >> http://pgolub.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/backward-compatibility-never-heard-of-it >> >> If we had stable system views for all database objects (stable as in we >> just append to them), then

Re: [HACKERS] A good illustraton of why we need user-friendly system views

2012-06-22 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > http://pgolub.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/backward-compatibility-never-heard-of-it > > If we had stable system views for all database objects (stable as in we > just append to them), then refactoring our system tables wouldn't break > things for o

[HACKERS] A good illustraton of why we need user-friendly system views

2012-06-22 Thread Josh Berkus
http://pgolub.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/backward-compatibility-never-heard-of-it If we had stable system views for all database objects (stable as in we just append to them), then refactoring our system tables wouldn't break things for our users. Just sayin'. (and don't tell me about information_